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Prehistoric Pottery from Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Havertown :
Oxbow Books, Limited,
2017.
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| Colección: | Monograph (Dakhleh Oasis Project) ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Book Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; List of plates; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Methodology and structure of study; 1.2 Research history on the pottery collection; 1.3 Points of clarification; PART I; 2. Technology, terminology and description; 2.1 Methods of analysis; 2.2 Fabric description; 2.2.1 Groundmass; 2.2.2 Inclusions; 2.2.3 Technological properties; 2.3 Surface treatment description; 2.3.1 Plain; 2.3.2 Coated; 2.3.3 Compacted; 2.3.4 Textured; 2.3.5 Decorated; 2.4 Shape description; 2.4.1 Vessel shape; 2.4.2 Vessel contour; 2.4.3 Proportion.
- 2.4.4 Miscellaneous objects3. Classification; 3.1 Fabric classification; 3.1.1 Fabric Family 1: sand-and-shale; 3.1.2 Fabric Family 2: shale-rich; 3.1.3 Fabric Family 3: sand; 3.1.4 Fabric Family 4: vegetal; 3.1.5 Fabric Family 5: fine sand and limestone; 3.1.6 Fabric Family 6: gypsum; 3.1.7 Fabric Family 7: clay aggregates; 3.1.8 Fabric Family 8: marls; 3.1.9 Fabric Family 9: densely textured; 3.2 Ware classifi cation; 3.2.1 Plain (Hp) wares; 3.2.2 Compacted (Hm) wares; 3.2.3 Coated (Hc) wares; 3.2.4 Textured (Hx) wares; 3.2.5 Decorated (Hd) wares; 3.2.6 Compacted-and-coated (Hmc) wares.
- 3.2.7 Compacted-and-textured (Hmx) wares3.2.8 Compacted-and-decorated (Hmd) wares; 3.2.9 Textured-and-decorated (Hxd) wares; 4. Quantitative analysis; 4.1 Methods of analysis; 4.2 Analysis using multidimensional scaling and similarity percentage; 4.3 Accounting for pottery from Masara sites; 4.4 Characterising the Bashendi pottery tradition; 4.4.1 Bashendi A; 4.4.2 Bashendi B; 4.5 Accounting for the pottery from sites 401, 407, 409, 420, 422 and 423; 4.6 Characterising the Sheikh Muftah pottery tradition; 4.6.1 Early Sheikh Muftah; 4.6.2 Late Sheikh Muftah.
- 4.7 Handmade pottery from sites that are not registered on the Holocene prehistory index4.8 Handmade pottery from fi ndspots; 5. Long-term change in the ceramic record; 5.1 Summary of fabrics; 5.2 Summary of surface treatments; 5.3 Summary of vessel forms: shape and size; 5.4 Comments on ware and shape cross-tabulation; PART II; 6. Provenance; 6.1 Distinguishing locally made and imported pottery; 6.2 Thin-section analysis (by Mark Eccleston); 7. Conclusions; 7.1 Pottery variation and classification: reaching a compromise.
- 7.2 Towards a better understanding of the early and mid-Holocene cultural units7.3 Future directions for study; Appendix Site collections; Bibliography; Plate section.